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Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

About This Series

Many people today dismiss the claims of Christianity outright because they believe the objections against it are self-evident and obviously unanswerable. The truth is that these objections are culturally conditioned rather than rigorously substantiated. Why not examine the objections objectively? What do you have to lose?

Sermons in this series

1

03 Sep 2017

The Problem of Pain

2

10 Sep 2017

The Problem of Science

3

17 Sep 2017

The Problem of Hell

4

24 Sep 2017

The Problem of Evolution

1

03 Sep 2017

The Problem of Pain

03 Sep 2017

The Problem of Pain

Part 1 of Objection

by

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

About

Discussion

When you see other people suffering, you don’t just feel compassion for the victims. You feel a sense of outrage and injustice. It upsets you that bad things happen to good people. It’s the same when you are suffering yourself. You will inevitably ask why it’s happening to you. In this message, Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng explains why all of us ask why there is suffering, and how Christianity provides a coherent answer that leads us to find hope in God even in the midst of suffering.

Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:16

Discussion Questions

What is the problem of pain which atheists claim is a powerful argument against the existence of God? Explain in your own words how the problem of pain actually discloses rather than disproves the existence of God.

Are you or someone close to you experiencing suffering and pain which God does not relieve in spite of your fervent prayers? How does it make you feel about God? What does the bible have to say about this?

What is the hope that the bible holds out to believers who are suffering? How can we be certain of such hope? Do you have it?

The Problem of Pain

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

10 Sep 2017

The Problem of Science

10 Sep 2017

The Problem of Science

Part 2 of Objection

by

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

About

Discussion

In recent years, several prominent scientists have declared confidently that science has conclusively disproved the existence of God. Because of their impressive credentials, some people are persuaded that Christianity is no longer viable for rational and intelligent people. But is this true? In this message, Pastor Tiak explains why science and Christianity compliment each other, and that they conflict only when we engage in bad science or unbiblical Christianity.

Discussion Questions

Why is it important to be able to reconcile the supposed discrepancy between science and religion? What can you do to become more proficient in doing so?

Why is science not in a position to explain everything about the universe and life? What in your personal experience do you find incompatible with atheistic naturalism?

To what extent do you live your life as a practical atheist (as if this life has no greater purpose, and there is nothing beyond it?)

The Problem of Science

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

17 Sep 2017

The Problem of Hell

17 Sep 2017

The Problem of Hell

Part 3 of Objection

by

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

About

Discussion

Whatever you may believe about hell, it is clearly a very emotive topic that most people avoid altogether. The very idea of hell comes across to many as intolerably barbaric, vindictive and tyrannical, yet Christians insist that hell is real. In this message, Pastor Tiak examines the increasingly popular idea that a loving God would not torture people eternally. Scripture: Luke 16:19-3

Discussion Questions

How do you personally feel about the bible’s teaching on hell? What is the fundamental reason why people go to hell?

Why is it absurd to think that God is using hell to scare people into being good? How then can the knowledge of hell change our hardened hearts?

What are you doing to share the good news with those around you, so that they may avoid the horrors of hell?

The Problem of Hell

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

24 Sep 2017

The Problem of Evolution

24 Sep 2017

The Problem of Evolution

Part 4 of Objection

by

Senior Pastor Wang Tiak Kweng

About

Discussion

It has become fashionable to believe that evolution is fundamentally incompatible with the Christian faith. This causes many Christians to either reject evolution outright or to put faith and science into two separate boxes. It also makes many non-Christians dismiss the Christian faith summarily as being unscientific and unworthy of consideration. Is there a better way to approach this issue? In today’s message Pastor Tiak will help us understand how Christians ought to evaluate evolution without compromising their faith, and how non-Christians can consider Christianity without compromising intellectual integrity. Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5.

Discussion Questions

How should Christians respond to scientific theories which challenge our understanding of the bible?

What is your view of Neo-Darwinism and how it relates to the bible? What is the basis of your opinion?

What are the implications of atheistic naturalism for the meaning of reality and life? How should we respond to people who say that what we perceive to be true, (e.g. morality, free will or beauty) have no objective reality, but are merely the outcome of evolution (inherited adaptations that enabled our species to be positively selected by nature)?